Organizing Your Life-Time
A 3-8 hour workshop.
Are you missing opportunities for fulfillment because of confusion
about your goals or inadequate planning of your personal or professional
affairs? One hour spent clarifying goals and planning activities
can be worth three or four hours trying to do things without
a good sense of direction.
This seminar gives you an opportunity to clarify the important
goals in your life and learn the organizational skills necessary
to accomplish them efficiently. You can feel more in control
and get more done--while decreasing stress!
Possible Benefits of "Organizing Your Life-Time:"
- You'll get a better sense of your direction in life.
By identifying all your current roles, and then writing down
your goals and their priorities in all the major areas of life,
you'll clarify your sense of direction.
- You'll know how to organize in order to get things done efficiently.
This seminar teaches the essential skills of identifying the
tasks necessary to accomplish your goals, prioritizing and scheduling
these tasks along with appointments from your calendar, and visualizing
your schedule to make sure it will work.
This workshop can be set up to supply participants with organizers
or not. Different types of organizers--including binders, calendars,
daily scheduling sheets, and other materials--can be provided
at discount prices for workshop participants. Many types of organizers
are available, depending on preferences of individual participants
or sponsoring organizations.
Results in No Time will beat any major vendor's price on training
and organizers/materials. Franklin or Covey time management seminars
can be presented at a lower cost either with their materials
or with other organizers/materials.
- You'll know how to be more efficient without increasing stress.
You'll be introduced to alternative ways of thinking about and
experiencing time, so you will be less likely to fall into the
usual time management traps of artificially imposing schedules
on your life and hurrying in order to accomplish more.
- You'll have a better understanding for what time is.
If we don't understand what time is, how can we manage it?
But most time management systems and seminars--including Franklin
and Covey seminars--are somewhat ineffective and confusing because
they don't explain the differences between physical time, clock
time, and psychological time.
At this workshop you can:
Highlights and Key Points:
Graduates of conventional time management (CTM) seminars often
practice techniques diligently, only to find that they still
feel pressured, hurried, and anxious about not having enough
time. CTM seminars usually lead us to believe that if we practice
diligently we'll gain total control over time and not feel pressured,
but they don't deliver what they promise.
Covey says, "The very fact that . . . the fundamental
problem remains . . . is a good indication that the basic paradigms
are flawed." Most conventional time management (CTM)
seminars cannot resolve our problems with time because
they don't touch the limits built into the linear time paradigm
(LT) that usually underlies CTM.
"While with these [CTM] methods you may alleviate
some time pressures temporarily, because your state of being
is not affected, you never generate any deep or lasting changes
in how you view and interact with time. . . . Ultimately you
return to your old ways, and with new frustration." (Hunt
and Hait, p. 149)
Lasting, substantial control and use of time, to increase
health, productivity, and creativity, is possible only if we
understand time, our attitudes toward it, and how it works--and
this is not taught in CTM seminars.
Inner time management (ITM) is a methodology started in 1985
and based on the inner time mental model. Rather than CTM's
focus on what we want to do, inner time management (ITM)
gives methods to optimize the moment-by-moment way we
relate to, or the extent to which we are involved in, our current
activity. By finding the peaceful, yet most productive 'zone'
at the center of our whirlwind of activities, we can transform
our feelings of time flowing--including overwhelm, time pressure,
anxiety, and boredom--and move toward the timelessness and
absorption of self-actualization. These methods are taught in
ITM seminars (see Turning Procrastination
Around and Taking the Pressure
Out of Deadlines and Need More
Time? Find Time Between Moments) and TSK
seminars.
For people in all but the most routine jobs, learning and
consistently using both CTM and ITM methods is both valuable
and necessary in order to continually improve our lives both
personally and professionally. Neither CTM nor ITM by itself
resolves our issues with time.
The essential CTM skills are to identify long-term goals,
break down projects, prioritize tasks, estimate how long it will
take to do things, and schedule tasks.
The Life Patterning Exercise--In
order to manage our lives, we need to know where our time and
energy is going, and all the activities we would like to add
to our lives.
The Role Cycling Exercise--Are certain
aspects of your being overstressed or underdeveloped? Are some
roles difficult to visualize or negative while others are very
positive or vivid? Are any roles missing?
Writing a long-range presumé
exercise (a presumé reviews past events from a
point in the future) can intuitively determine current directions
and possibilities, rather than intellectually impose goals and
objectives.
We'll record lifetime objectives in
seven areas: family, social life, career/service, finances,
health, leisure, and spiritual development.
Priorities define our lives--everything we do determines who
we are and will be and what we accomplish, and so implicitly
or explicitly involves a priority decision, so we might as well
be conscious about our choices.
First, priorities seem determined by various intellectual
guidelines that have been internalized or imposed from without.
These guidelines may be expressed as laws or principles of various
kinds. They correspond to a dichotomous, linear way of thinking.
Later in our development, many more options and directions
are continually available, and a feeling of certainty or importance
provides the basis for making decisions and determining priorities.
Differing degrees of certainty accompany different thoughts and
feelings; the strongest sense of certainty (or the least sense
of doubt) provides the surest direction.
The most interesting people to be around are those who are
achieving things that are important to them.
Scheduling helps get clear about what you want to accomplish,
priorities, time required, resources needed, and how things can
be coordinated. Scheduling almost never works as planned,
but is necessary for clarity--similarly, a jet flying to Hawaii
is off course 99% of the time, but continually correcting the
heading is necessary and effective to get there.
You can build a simple "time management control center"
with just three parts: a monthly/weekly calendar, project activity
sheets, and a miscellaneous item list.
To plan a day you can enter appointments from your calendar,
review project activity sheets and the miscellaneous item list
for things to do, prioritize, estimate time required if necessary,
schedule, visualize your day, and revise as necessary.
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